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Prologue
Moonlight shone in, illuminating the huge cave with silver. At the far corner, queens slept peacefully with their kits under a rocky overhang. Near the overhang, warriors slept in a crowd of bushes, the muscles clearly defined beneath their skin, showing their readiness to protect their clan. A shallow dip in the stone is where the apprentices resided, slumbering deeply from hard days of training. A cleft in the wall hid the medicine cat, whose snores could be heard several foxlengths from the cave. Old cats, with wisdom and stories to prove their merit could be found on a tiny plateau near the front of the cave.
All the cats were sleeping peacefully, except for one. He sat on a natural shelf on a wall of the great cave. It was so close to the entrance; a cat that stood at the mouth could almost see into it- almost. The swathing blackness due to the depth provided DarkClan with a safe home.
The cat turned his head momentarily to look back at his slumbering Clanmates. Although old in age, his amber eyes that glowed in darkness showed his spirit of young kit.
"Our Clan is so young, but so strong," He whispered softly. "It's as if we've been here for moons."
The moonlight outlined the cat's ears as they perked in recognition. A few heartbeats later, a large, buff tomcat enters the cave.
"Any news, Rock?" The cat on the ridge asks, keeping his voice low. He could tell the patrol had found something unordinary.
Rock dips his head in respect to his leader. "Yes, Dark. The patrol found a strange group of cats. They have no muscular shape or horns or thick tails like ours, or dark fur; they are slender with big white wings and light colored fur, and…" He paused, as if figuring out how to explain something. "They seem to… have an aura around them, an unseen force. It's like nothing I've ever seen. They asked us to take them to you, Dark. The leader calls herself Light."
Dark frowned. Never had he heard of these strange eagle-cats with invisible power. "Tell the patrol not to bring them inside the cave," He meows to Rock warily. "I'll meet them outside."
Rock smiles. "I already did. Come, we should go meet them… and I would keep my guard up, just in case."
Dark nods and pushes himself up, groaning with effort. "My time is almost up, Rock," he whispers softly. "You'll be a great second leader to this Clan."
They had barely taken a few steps when a strange whooshing noise grew louder and louder with every passing second. Why would any bird dare come close to our cave? Dark thought.
Dark stiffens when he sees the silhouette of a cat-like creature with wings twice as big. No. "Queens, kits, and elders, get in the medicine den! Warriors and apprentices, follow me into battle!" He yowls.
The cat's outline could be seen in the moonlight- a pure white she-cat with white wings that seemed to absorb the light, and glowing violet eyes.
"Light, where are our patrol and the rest of your cats?" Rock demands, looking up at her with dread.
Eyes still smoking with violet light, she spits out, "Your puny patrol? We sent them over the cliff. But don't worry, my patrol is right here." With a flick of her voluminous tail, seven other eagle-cats join her, now completely absorbing all light in the cave.
The DarkClan cats, which seemed to be disorientated by sleep, were murmuring in confusion. The confusion turns into panic once Light lets out a wild battle howl and swoops down. Her cats swoop down with her, like hawks hunting prey.
Light snatches a wayward kit in her jaws and throws it against the hard stonewall of the cave. Its tiny scream was cut off as its head hit it, followed by an echoing crack.
"No!" A queen screams, and launches herself at Light. She uses her super strength to leap up and barrel into her, pinning her to the ground. Her eyes gleam with triumph.
Light only smirks, and her eyes began to glow brightly. A huge hole, the size of a mouse, appears in the queen's chest. She gasps for air and life, staggering as blood exceedingly gushes from the wound. A few heartbeats after, she flops on the ground, never to open her eyes.
Dark stares in horror as the queen's eyes become glassy. He shakes himself out of the daze. Fight back! He desperately looks around the cave, trying to help someone still alive. It happened so fast… A year of building this clan, only to watch it be destroyed in seconds. He runs into the medicine cave, finding his two apprentices being cornered by an eagle-cat slightly smaller than the rest. Behind the cat lies Flower, the medicine cat. Blood is still rushing out of her chest.
Dark yowls and flings himself at the cat, throwing him into the ground and then leaping on top of him. When the cat's eyes start to go violet he whacks the eagle-cat's head with his long, thick dragon-like tail. While he is dazed, Dark unsheathes his long, curved claws and easily slits his throat open. "You aren't the only dangerous ones," he snarls. He looks up to make sure the apprentices were okay, only to find them both on the floor, death entering them.
He spins around to find Light, all four feet on the ground because the ceiling was too low. Her eyes were sparking violet. "My only apprentice!" She hisses. "You've killed him!" Dark feels a cold sensation, like he was standing in a waterfall with ice-cold water. He tries to move, but fails. The only thing he can do is watch as Light lunges at him, tiny claws unsheathed.
He closes his eyes. It's all over now. He waits for his life to end, but it doesn't come. He hesitantly opens one eye. Light's face is inches from his. Her eyes have become a normal ice-blue color, and the evil smirk on her face was back.
"What are you waiting for?" Dark spits. "Finish me off! I've nothing to live for anymore."
Light grins, a mad gleam in her eye. "You are the leader of this disgraceful Clan, no?" Dark winces but grudgingly nods. "What better way to die then to watch those still alive be killed right before your eyes?"
"No. NO!" Dark yowls as Light carries him out of the cave, his body suspended in the air. Struggle as much as he could, there was nothing he could do against this magic. His body fills with dread as he saw the cats to be killed, standing in a ragged, bloody line- a queen, an elder, the last apprentice, and Rock.
Dark's eyes lock with Rock's. Rock jerks his head in a direction close to the entrance of the cave. A bit to the left of it was the Pool of Life. Dark's eyes widen. How could I be such a mouse-brain?
Light lets her ice grip on Dark fall. He scrambles for the Pool, but three full-grown warriors tackle him. One of them starts to hold him in an ice grip again.
"No, Tree!" Light yowls. "It will be harder for him to feel grief if we use magic. All of you hold him still with your paws." Tree stops the magic, and all three warriors hold down Dark, but in a way so he could see the death of his remaining Clan. They'll let their guard down after a while. Then I'll make a run for it.
Dark closes his eyes as the high-pitched scream of the queen echoes through the cave. Tree whacks him on the side of the head. "Open your eyes," he sneered.
Dark obeys. The queen is lying in a similar position as the first one to die. Rock lets his eyes drift to the roof of the cave as the others were killed, but his heart gave a wrench at every scream. With every kill, his captors' grip was getting weaker and weaker as they became distracted.
Finally, it is Rock's turn. He gives Dark a nod, as he is lead to the middle of the cave. Dark rears upward, roaring as the three warriors fell off him with shocked yelps. He speeds over to the Pool of Life Light yells, and a burning sensation overtook Dark. He yells and collapses, and shuffles close to the Pool. With fuzzy eyesight, he watches the blood of the large hole in his chest drip into the pool and turn wispy. The Pool glimmers with an unnatural aqua color, and some of the essence of the pool whispers into his ear.
Gone is the comforting Dark
Shone to extinction by harsh Light
But where there is Light and Dark, there must be Shadows.
Dark closes his eyes. "Thank you, StarClan," he wheezes. He opens his eyes and looks across the cave. Rock is dead, but there is a small smile frozen on his face. Black spots fill up his vision as Light triumphantly stands over him.
"We have won!" Light howls into the roof of the cave. "We have won over this cave, and annihilated the enemy!" Her warriors yowl into the air with her. She turns to Tree. "Go fetch the dead apprentice from the medicine den, and throw him off the cliff like we did with that patrol. He was weak anyways, and we'll have new apprentices soon." Tree gulps, but nods and flaps over to the medicine den.
Light narrows her eyes. "There's one last thing I need to do…" She dabs her dainty paw in Dark's blood. Flapping over to the opposite sid, the wall deep within the cave, she paints a scene. The grotesque scene is of winged cats killing horned cats, and Light standing over Dark's body.
"We will rule this cave forever!" Light howls, and her Clanmates join her.
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